Fortune· 2h ago· 1 min read
Without warning, the dapper French gentleman groaned like a bullfrog and collapsed on the Bendor Island boat pier in the South of France.
Every season of HBO’s highbrow whodunit The White Lotus begins with a murder. So it somehow felt appropriate that this dockside kerfuffle coincided with the next season of the show being filmed nearby in St.-Tropez and Cannes, for likely release in 2027. The show’s tragicomic plot, it seemed, had spilled down the coast to this rosé-and-retirees village, Bandol.
Thankfully, the man soon sat up, recovered from the episode—but by then I had already conjured elaborate schemes in an alternate narrative universe: a scalpel-tipped parasol! Arsenic in his afternoon pastis!
My boat to the White Lotus –esque island resort Zannier Île de Bendor scooted out of the marina as the crimson flash of ambulances inflamed the blue-and-peach palette of the Côte d’Azur.…
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